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#medicine #rheumatology
Question
What are the Red flags for sinister causes of back pain ?
Answer
- Aged < 20 yrs or > 55 yrs old
- Acute onset in elderly people
- Constant or progressive pain
- Nocturnal pain
- Worse pain on being supine
- Fever, night sweats, weight loss
- History of malignancy
- Abdominal mass
- Thoracic back pain
- Morning stiff ness
- Bilate al or alternating leg pain
- Neurological disturbance (incl sciatica)
- Sphincter disturbance
- Current or recent infection
- Immunosuppression, eg steroids/ HIV
- Leg claudication or exercise-related leg weakness/ numbness (spinal stenosis)
Tags
#medicine #rheumatology
Question
What are the Red flags for sinister causes of back pain ?
Tags
#medicine #rheumatology
Question
What are the Red flags for sinister causes of back pain ?
Answer
- Aged < 20 yrs or > 55 yrs old
- Acute onset in elderly people
- Constant or progressive pain
- Nocturnal pain
- Worse pain on being supine
- Fever, night sweats, weight loss
- History of malignancy
- Abdominal mass
- Thoracic back pain
- Morning stiff ness
- Bilate al or alternating leg pain
- Neurological disturbance (incl sciatica)
- Sphincter disturbance
- Current or recent infection
- Immunosuppression, eg steroids/ HIV
- Leg claudication or exercise-related leg weakness/ numbness (spinal stenosis)
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